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Orchid Species: Holothrix papillosa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Holothrix papillosa is an orchid species identified by Summerh. in 1960.
ORIGIN: Found in Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania in open montane grasslands and upland Brachystegia woodlands at elevations of 1680 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2, adpressed to the ground, ovate to reniform, obtuse to apiculate, hirsute above leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, densely long hirsute, to 10 [to 25 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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